Lee Harvey Oswald

Associated Press

News about Lee Harvey Oswald, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Jan. 31, 2015

Judge Donald J Cosby rules that coffin that once held body of Lee Harvey Oswald belongs to his brother Robert Oswald and not Baumgardner Funeral Home in Forth Worth, Tex; orders funeral home and its owner Allen S Baumgardener Sr to pay Oswald damages of $87,468, amount buyer agreed to pay funeral home for coffin in 2010 auction. MORE

Dec. 12, 2014

Trial ends in suit brought by Robert Oswald, whose brother Lee Harvey assassinated Pres John F Kennedy, against Baumgardner Funeral Home; Oswald seeks financial penalty from home for auctioning younger Oswald's original coffin, which was replaced in 1981 after exhumation; funeral home counters Oswald relinquished ownership of coffin by making it 'gift' to deceased brother; judge's ruling is not expected until late December. MORE

Aug. 10, 2014

Carol Huang article on Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas observes it once was home to Lee Harvey Oswald, and is in midst of turnaround. MORE

Nov. 21, 2013

Dan Barry This Land column describes decades-old audio recording of late Philip Jacobs telling his granddaughter the story of finding out that Lee Harvey Oswald, who was a teenage tenant in a Bronx apartment building he owned, had been randomly shooting a BB gun at people in the neighborhood; notes that the story has not heretofore been told to anyone outside the Jacobs family. MORE

Nov. 10, 2013

Paul Gregory article recalls his friendship with Lee Harvey Oswald, fifty years after the assassination of John F Kennedy; contends he realized he watched Oswald transform into an assassin. MORE

Aug. 18, 2013

Dispatch column by Dan Barry describes the incensed reaction from some readers after casually stating in a column that Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated Pres John F Kennedy; reflects on why many people are drawn in by the allure of conspiracy theories. MORE

Aug. 10, 2013

Dan Barry This Land column reveals that Patric Abedin, writer who has a penchant for the morbid, owns the burial plot beside Lee Harvey Oswald’s in Fort Worth, Tex; notes that headstone marked Nick Beef, which vexed assassination buffs for years, refers to Abedin's long-held persona. MORE

Nov. 3, 2012

KGB files, as well as recent and coming books by researchers and people who knew Lee Harvey Oswald, provide an intimate look at his time in Minsk, Belarus. MORE

Apr. 11, 2012

David Card is determined to pursue whatever legal action it takes to get back original tombstone of Lee Oswald, the presumed assassin of John F Kennedy; Card family first stumbled upon the gravestone some 30 years ago in crawl space under Texas house of Oswald's mother Marguerite Oswald, which the family bought after she died; stone ended up in hands of his step-cousin's wife, who sold it two years ago, and is currently being displayed at Historic Automotive Attractions museum in Roscoe, Ill. MORE